Oracle Open World'08 Key Note – Cloudy Announcements!!

There were quite a few interesting points mentioned in the keynote by
Chuck Rozwat & Charles Philips. Here’s the Cloud specific items of note;.
Chuck Rozwat listed the 3 key strategic directions of how Oracle approaches its
Application Layer/product suite;

Another announcement of note was Oracle DB, Fusion Middleware &
Enterprise manager for the Cloud – The first environment is Amazon EC2 – customers can deploy this environment
with no additional license, enabling customers to deploy Oracle solutions on
Amazon EC2 quickly and efficiently. Oracle is delivering a set of free Amazon
Machine Images (AMIs). Using Oracle provided AMIs, new virtual machines can be
provisioned with Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Enterprise Linux.
Robert Shimp, vice president Oracle Global Technology Business Unit said that;

Providing choice is the foundation of Oracle’s strategy to enable customers
to become more productive and lower their IT costs — whether it’s choice of
hardware, operating system, or on demand computing – extending this to the Cloud
environment is a natural evolution. We are pleased to partner with Amazon Web
Services to provide our customers enterprise-class Cloud solutions, using
familiar Oracle software on which their businesses depend.

Interestingly OnDemand is a
part of Customer Services business group within US Juergen
RottlerStrategic ContextCorporate Strategy – Complete –
Open – Integrated Customer Service Strategy – Maximize Customer Success (Deep
Expertise, Complete lifecycle, industry leadership & service innovation) On
Demand Strategy – Accelerate time to value, Optimize IT so customers can focus
on their investments. Absolutely mission critical for the long terms success for
Oracle. Marc Schwarz Evolution 10 years in
the on Demand business Oracle On Demand Vision Statement